Barrel-heading press



(No Model.)

B. S. MILES.

BARREL HEADING PRESS.

No. 491,847. Patented Feb. 14, 1893.

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BRADFORD S. MILES, OF GRAYS SUMMIT, MISSOURI.

BARREL-HEADING PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,847, dated February14, 1893.

Application filed September 24, 1892. Serial No. 446,806. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BRADFORD S. MILES, of Grays Summit, in the county ofFranklin and State of Missouri, have invented a new and ImprovedBarrel-Heading Press, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to an improvement in barrel heading presses, andhas for its object to simplify the construction of such machines andalso to economize in their manufacture and to produce a machine thefollower of which will exert an even tension upon the head of a barreland insure the head being simultaneously entered into the croze withoutinjury to the articles packed in the barrel.

Another object of the invention'is to construct the machine in suchmanner that it may be expeditiously and conveniently applied to a barreland as readily manipulated.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafterfully set forth and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures and letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a central vertical section through the barrel and themachine applied thereto, taken essentially on the line 11 of Fig. 2;Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken through the device, on the line 22of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken through one of the armsof the upper or body plate, practically on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; andFig. at is an end View of one of the adjustable arms of the body.

The body of the device comprises a center or hub portion 10, and aseries of arms 11, which radiate from the center. Thearms are employedinstead of a disk of proper size to cover the head of the barrel, as thearms admit of the operator keeping the head constantly in view, whilethe disk form of body would conceal the head. The body is usually madewith three arms, as illustrated, and the entire body may be made eitherof wood or of metal, and may consist of one or more pieces. \Vhcnconstructed of wood, as shown in the drawings, each arm at its extremityis provided with a metal cap or top 12, which is closely fitted over it,as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. The arms of the body are of such lengththat they extend over the head of the barrel when the device is in use.The follower B, also consists of a hub or central section 13, and aseries of wings 14 radiating therefrom. The wings are usually four innumber, two of them only being in diametrical alignment. The follower ismade somewhat smaller in size than the head of the barrel to be fitted,and in order that the follower may be properly adjusted to the head ofabarrel if said barrel is slightly small or slightly large, plates orcaps 15, are fitted over the extremities of the two diametricallyaligning arms, and these caps or plates are laterally adjustable uponthe said arms and may be fixed at any point in the length of the arms bypassing set screws 16 through the caps or plates and through the arms,as shown in Figs. 2 and 4:, the plates being provided with slots so thatthey may readily move laterally upon the arms, that is, to or from thechines ot' the barrel, the adjusting screws remaining stationary. Thefollower is made of substantially stellated shape as shown in thedrawings for the same reason that the body portion is provided with thearms 11.

The attachment of the machine to a barrel is effected through the mediumof rods 0, which rods at their lower ends are provided withinwardly-extending feet 17; and their upper extremities are threaded asshown at 18 and are passed through suitable openings 19 in the wings,the rods extending through each wing of the body. When the body isconstructed of wood the metal caps or ferrules are provided in theirupper faces with apertures and through these apertures the threadedupper extremities of the rods 0 pass, as the apertures register with theopenings 19 in the arms. The lower apertures are situated in like manneras the upper ones, and are also produced in the plate 12, and theselower apertures are square. Therefore the rods do not turn but willremain in the position in which they are placed at their lower ends. Thebody A being stationary the rods are raised and lowered through themedium tions below the body of the machine.

of thumb nuts 20, located upon the upper portion of their threaded ends,as shown in Fig. 3. The upward movement of the rods is limited by stops21 placed upon their body por- One of the rods is made in two sections 0and c, the two sections being connected by a hinge 22. Thus when threearms are formed upon the body and a rod is carried by eacharm, by movingthe lower section of the jointed arm outward from the barrel the entiremachine may be slipped readily out of place and away from the barrel.

The downward adjustment of the follower is accomplished through themedium of a smooth shaft 23, which passes loosely through the body, andthe lower end of the shaft has a swivel connection with the centralportion of the follower. The shaft 23,Which is really the drive shaft,is provided at its upper end with a handle 24, and at its lower end agear 25 is securely attached. This gear turns above the follower andmeshes with three pinions 26 located upon three of the arms of thefollower, as shown best in Fig. 2. Each of these pinions is providedwith a screw shaft 27, securely fastened to it, and these shafts extendupward through the body, turning in apertures therein the walls of whichare threaded when the body is of metal, but when the body is made ofwood, nuts 28 are inserted in the body, through which the screw shaftsare passed, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

In the operation of this device the machine is attached over the barrelto be headed and the head is laid in place above the croze of thebarrel; the drive shaft 23 is turned, and it communicates motion to theseveral screw shafts 28, which in their turn either force the followerevenly and regularly downward or in the same manner upward whichmovement depends upon thedirection in which the handle 24 is turned; butwhen the follower is carried downward by the action of the screw shaftsit will force the head down until it is properly entered in the croze,at which ti me the downward travel of the follower is stopped; then thefollower is carried upward and the machine is released from the barrel.

It is obvious that throughout the entire operation the major portion ofthe head of the barrel at its periphery is visible, and no matterwhether the barrel is packed with delicate fruit or not, none of it willbe injured by the head as the downward pressure brought to bear upon thehead is evenly distributed over its entire surface; and with little orno hammering.

A paramount advantage of this press in comparison with the old stylepress, is the speed with which it operates in consequence of the gearingemployed.

In the old style of press the operatinghandle is attached to but onescrew and without gearing, while in the present instance three screwsare employed, each carrying a pinion, the pinions meshing with'a centralgearwheel to the shaft of which latter the operating handle is attached.The gear wheel being three times as large as the pinions and havingthree times as many teeth, the head is carried down three times as fastby one revolution of the operating handle, as is done in the old styleof press.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, l

1. In a barrel heading press, the combination with a body adapted to besecured to a barrel, of a follower below the body, screws carried by thefollower and working in apertures in the body, a drive shaft,.and meansfor operating the said screws from the drive shaft, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a barrel heading press, the combination, with a follower, a bodylocated above the follower, and clamping arms adjustably located uponthe body, of a driving shaft loosely mounted in the body and having aswivel connection with the follower near its center, screw shafts havingtheir lower ends swiveled in the follower and arranged around the driveshaft, the upper portions of the screw shafts engaging the threads inthe body, interlocking gears carried by the screw shafts and the driveshaft, and a driving mechanism connected with the drive shaft, as andfor the purpose set forth.

3. In a barrel heading press, the combination, with a substantiallystellated follower and a substantially similarly shaped body, '1

the follower having sundry of its arms adjustable, and clamping rodsadjustably carried by the body and adapted for engage ment with'thebarrel to be acted upon, of a drive shaft having free movement in thebody and a swivel connection with the central portion of the follower,screw shafts engaging threads in the body and having their lower endsswiveled in thefollower,the screw shafts being located over sundry ofthe arms of the follower, and gearing connecting the screw and the driveshafts, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4:. In a barrel heading press, the combination with the body of thepress, of rods for securing the body to a barrel having their upper endsadjustably connected to the body and provided with inwardly extending.feet on their lower ends, one of the said rods being-made in sectionshinged together, substantially as set forth.

BRADFORD S. MILES.

Witnesses:

GLEN H. HARDEMAN, WM. RIEs.

